# Privacy on Glassdoor, good/bad?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/privacy-on-glassdoor-good-bad/839032>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 21, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/privacy-on-glassdoor-good-bad/839032 "2019-08-21T23:44:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/privacy-on-glassdoor-good-bad/839032/1 "2019-08-21T23:44:27Z")

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So, I’m looking to hear the experiences of anybody who has posted a company or employer review on Glassdoor.

How are their privacy protocols? I don’t mean antifraud protocols, I mean, how likely is it that my boss will find out who I am when I post a company review on Glassdoor? (yes, my company monitors these sorts of websites)

I’m not going to post an all bad review, I like my job and my coworkers (mostly) but management is…well lets just say I’ve grown intolerant of them insisting I drink the koolade, and the daily inconsistance in SOP, so, the review isn’t going to be exactly great either.

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**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/privacy-on-glassdoor-good-bad/839032/2 "2019-08-22T04:29:31Z")

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Glassdoor seems pretty secure; that’s the good news. The bad news is that if you post anything with any detail you can be guessed. Where I work got slammed by quite a few people and I can name almost each one based on their position and word choices. Force of habit and sometimes we type as we speak.

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**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/privacy-on-glassdoor-good-bad/839032/3 "2019-08-22T10:34:08Z")

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My former employer has a few negative reviews on Glassdoor, and for some of these I can reduce it down to 2 possible authors. There’s also one glowing review, it’s anonymous but Glassdoor mentions that the author’s job title was “CTO”. 😃

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**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/privacy-on-glassdoor-good-bad/839032/4 "2019-08-22T11:48:52Z")

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My understanding is Glassdoor doesn’t release details on who posted what. That said, I can tell you my company VERY carefully monitors Glassdoor, and any negative review is up for a lot of speculation around who wrote it. Even in a fairly large organization (~3K+ employees), you do risk them guessing who wrote the review. Job title, writing style, specific comments all tend to be pretty good clues.

Put it this way: If you are vocal about your dislike for X, Y, and Z at work and feel your voice is not being heard, don’t go write about how your company is really bad at X, Y, and Z on Glassdoor. Folks aren’t dumb, it’s easy to connect the dots.